Ohio Voice 2024 Partners
Below are the partners we support who are building progressive power with year-round civic engagement in their communities.
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To expand and protect abortion access, we use the political process to champion policy changes, mobilize activists and voters, and endorse and support elected officials working to protect bodily autonomy.
As a grassroots organization, AAVP works to ensure Arab Americans are registered to vote, informed, empowered and engaged. AAVP serves as a gateway for promoting the needs of the Arab and Arabic-speaking community across Greater Cleveland by supporting efforts that increase their visibility and representation within the American political system.
The mission of the Black Appalachian Coalition (BLAC) is to build a multi-state campaign that amplifies black voices, dismantles the colonized narrative of Appalachia, and uses story-based strategies and solutions that center the voices and lived experience of Black Appalachians.
Black Queer & Intersectional Collective is a grassroots community organization that works towards the liberation of Black queer, trans, and intersex people from all walks of life through direct action, community organizing, education on our issues, and creating spaces to uplift our voices.
For more than 20 years, the Council on American-Islamic Relations has been fighting for the civil rights of American Muslims. Our Cleveland chapter is one of the busiest and most dynamic of CAIR’s thirty nationwide affiliates – defending, representing, and educating our community. We work to ensure the equal protection of the law for Muslims in Ohio. By working to uphold the constitution, we reinforce the American principles of justice and freedom for all Americans.
Campus Vote Project works with universities, community colleges, faculty, students and election officials to reduce barriers to student voting. Our goal is to help campuses institutionalize reforms that empower students with the information they need to register and vote.
Cleveland VOTES is a nonpartisan, democracy-building movement that works to reconstruct and strengthen power through active participation of our collective partners. Guided by a system of networks, we promote informed, action-oriented mobilization that shifts power towards Equitable Civic Engagement and Infrastructure.
Columbus Stand Up! is a non-profit organization that directly supports communities, grassroots organizes, and amplifies community voices in the political process.
Common Cause Ohio is committed to protecting and improving voters’ rights and access to the ballot in Ohio and improving transparency and accountability in government.
The Cuyahoga County Jail Coalition envisions Cuyahoga County divesting from incarceration and transferring resources towards community care and rehabilitation. We’re committed to cultivating a culture that’s community centered, restorative, trauma informed, and prioritizes a holistic approach towards healing and accountability.
Equality Ohio identifies and transforms systems and institutions so LGBTQ+ Ohioans can fully access legal and lived equality.
Faith Choice Ohio elevates the moral power of faith communities to expand abortion access and to advance reproductive health, rights, and justice. Through education, advocacy, and direct service, we are committed to empowering advocates for abortion justice & reproductive freedom.
Faith in Public Life advances the moral imperative for a just, inclusive and equitable country so everyone is able to live into their full humanity. Our coalition of influential faith leaders – who reflect the diversity of the nation – collectively discern, set faith-forward strategy and take transformative action. By building cultures of belonging and leveraging the collective power of our multifaith and multiracial coalition, our strategy hub leads us closer to realizing a healthy and equitable democracy.
Greater Cleveland Congregations (GCC) is a non-partisan organization of faith communities and partner organizations in Cuyahoga County working together to build power for social justice.
Honesty for Ohio Education is a nonpartisan, Ohio-based, statewide coalition that champions honesty in education, the empowerment of students, families, and educators, and the affirmation of identities, cultures, and experiences.
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KYC is the largest and longest serving organization in Ohio supporting LGBTQIA+ youth, ages 12-24. At Kaleidoscope, belonging means being. To stand in your strengths. To stand in your power. And to stand for a world where everyone can be their most confident, authentic self.
Motherful is a soulful, grassroots collective of single mothers in Columbus, Ohio. Founded by single mothers for single mothers, we are a living, breathing, radical vision of the collective future of motherhood.
Since 1988, NEOCH has sought to break the cycle of homelessness in Northeast Ohio. We exist to eliminate the root causes of homelessness while loving our diverse community through organizing, advocacy, education, and street outreach.
The mission of the Northeast Ohio Worker Center is to build power with working people.
NOVA is a grassroots organization that believes in expanding voter participation so that all voices are heard in our democracy. Our 501(c)3, non-partisan status allows us access to social service agencies, schools, food pantries and correctional facilities to register voters, conduct voter research, and advocate for voting equity.
OCAEF informs, organizes, and mobilizes people to advocate for public interests across issues and campaigns. We engage people in actions that protect public health, improve environmental quality and benefit consumers. Our campaigns connect Ohioans and build a movement to protect democracy and create a sustainable and equitable future.
The mission of the Ohio Environmental Council is to secure healthy air, land, and water for all who call Ohio home. The OEC works for pragmatic solutions to keep Ohio clean and beautiful, and our communities safe. We fight for clean air and water, clean energy, and protected public lands. We hold polluters accountable in court while working with communities and companies that want to invest in a clean, more sustainable direction. For more than 50 years, we have led many of the major environmental policy wins in Ohio. The Ohio Environmental Council is the state’s most comprehensive, effective and respected environmental advocate for a healthier, more sustainable Ohio.
Our mission is to fight against police brutality and to support our extended families; who, while not related by blood, are bonded to us through the needless bloodshed of our loved ones.
The Ohio Coalition on Black Civic Participation, or Ohio Unity Coalition, is a state affiliate of the National Coalition on Black Civic Participation in Washington DC. Ohio Unity Coalition increases civic participation of Black Ohioans statewide by partnering with labor, community, civic and faith organizations to train and recruit volunteers who will register, educate, and mobilize voters.
Ohio Women’s Alliance is a power-building Reproductive Justice organization providing programming, resources, and education for women, femmes, gender-expansive folks, and youth throughout Ohio. Rooted in the foundations of Reproductive Justice, our mission is to transform Ohio into a state where all people can truly thrive through access to safe communities, equitable education, holistic health care and wellness, inclusive and representative democracy, and economic prosperity.
Originally founded in 2016, OPAWL is a grassroots member-led community that organizes for social justice and elevates the voices, visibility, and progressive leadership of Asian, Asian American, and Pacific Islander (AAPI) women and nonbinary people in Ohio.
Opportunities People’s Justice Leaders
Opportunities Peoples Justice Leaders, a fiscally sponsored 501c3 non-profit organization located in Ohio, was founded as Ohio Prisoners Justice League. This grassroots organization has grown from 15 people to over 1,000 dedicated and caring individuals who are passionate about the treatment of our society’s incarcerated population. We have formed to ensure incarcerated and detained individuals are treated with dignity and respect, and have their basic human needs met with compassion during their period of incarceration and beyond.
We are committed to raising anti-racist children and fostering the next generation of social justice activists through our three pillars: Organize, Educate, Demonstrate.
Planned Parenthood Advocates of Ohio is committed to protecting access to reproductive health care and rights for all Ohioans through advocacy, education, lobbying, and electoral activity.
Policy Matters Ohio, a non-profit policy research institute, creates a more vibrant, equitable, sustainable and inclusive Ohio through research, strategic communications, coalition building and policy advocacy.
OVF’s mission is to create sustainable voter engagement and mobilization programs in African American communities across Ohio by use of voter registration, education and issue awareness programs thru community based outreach to residents in low income communities.
Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) is a national organization that brings hundreds of thousands of white people into fights for racial and economic justice.
The Freedom ROC is a Black-Led innovative statewide organization that unites directly impacted people and communities to build a transformative base of power to achieve social, racial and economic justice in Ohio.
TransOhio serves the Ohio transgender and ally communities by providing services, education, support, and advocacy, which promotes and improves the health, safety and life experience of the Ohio transgender individual and community.
URGE envisions a liberated world where we can live with justice, love freely, express our gender and sexuality, and define and create families of our choosing. To achieve our vision of liberation, URGE builds power and sustains a young people’s movement for reproductive justice by centering the leadership of young people of color who are women, queer, trans, nonbinary, and people of low income.
VoteRiders is a non-partisan, non-profit organization with a mission to ensure that all citizens are able to exercise their freedom to vote. VoteRiders informs and helps citizens to secure their voter ID as well as inspires and supports organizations, local volunteers, and communities to sustain voter ID education and assistance efforts.
Ohio Working Families Party is a grassroots political party that recruits, trains, and elects progressive leaders to office. OHWFP has been doing work in Ohio since 2017.
The mission of the Young Latino Network is to coalesce the power of Latinx/a/o/e communities in order to liberate and transform our people. We amplify our ability to enact change through community-building, civic engagement and advocacy in Ohio.